Modern Afghanistan
Subtitle: a history of struggle and survival
By: Amin Saikal ; with assistance from Ravan Farhadi and Kirill Nourzhanov
Contributors: Ravan Farhadi, A. G.; Nourzhanov, Kirill
Edition: New revised paperback edition, New updated edition.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781780761220
Subjects: History; Politics and government
Notes: First published in hardback in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD; first published in paperback in 2006 by I.B. Tauris & Co. LTD.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and index.
Table of contents: title: From tribal confederacy to national coalescence; title: National awakening and nationalism; title: Independence and radical modernisation; title: The Nadiri dynasty: politics of national gradualism and 'royal dualism'; title: The cold war and the rise of a rentier state; title: Experiment with a democracy, 1963-1973; title: Daoud's republicanism; title: Communist rule, the Soviet invasion and resistance; title: Mujahideen Islamic rule and Taliban extremism; title: US intervention and the Karzai era.